Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Psalms 45:1, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Psalms 49:3
My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
- 2 Samuel 23:2
The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
- Job 33:3
My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
- Proverbs 16:23
The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.
- Job 32:18
For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
- 2 Peter 1:21
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
- Song of Solomon 1:1
The song of songs, which is Solomon’s.
- Isaiah 5:1
Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
- Psalms 24:7
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
- Proverbs 8:6
Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
- Psalms 2:6
Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
- Job 34:4
Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.
More to meet God in Psalms
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.